It’s what’s inside your car that counts

Drawing on the very real needs of today’s society C-track has launched an innovative new product called C-track Bodyguard. This is a value added service used in conjunction with either C-track Secure or C-track Secure plus vehicle tracking systems and is aimed at protecting you when you need it most.

A recent study performed a study on crime in South Africa and found that 10% of all hijackings and robberies happen when people are sitting in stationary cars - i.e. when they are parked or their cars broke down. As such, stories of robberies and murders along roads after vehicle breakdowns are regular occurrences in the South African media. Recently a famous South African rugby player’s life was endangered when he was robbed at gunpoint by the side of the road after running out of petrol.

These events prompted C-track to come up with a solution - a permanent bodyguard on call available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Unlike Roadside Assist, where the focus is on the vehicle, Bodyguard focuses on the safety of the occupants of that vehicle. If the driver breaks down in an unsafe area, one call to C-track’s support centre will initiate a team to secure the safety of the occupants. Due to the technology utilised in the tracking systems, C-track will know the location of your vehicle to within four metres without you even having to telling them.

In addition to the Bodyguard, C-track now also offers Accident Assist in partnership with ER24 In the case of an accident, a sensor will initiate an alarm to the C-track and ER24 call centres and medical assistance will be despatched to the scene. Again the technology of the Secure Plus units enables pin-point vehicle location accuracy which is critical especially if the occupants of the vehicle are unable to make a phone call.

This will prevent dreaded stories in the press where a vehicle and driver involved in an accident is only discovered the next day.

In one such incident a woman was trapped in her car for nearly nine hours after an airbag malfunction caused her car to crash on the R55 outside Kyalami in Johannesburg. The woman was knocked unconscious and nobody was aware that she had been involved in an accident – something that a C-track system would have picked up through Accident Assist.